I have been keeping quite quiet since the last update on the first successful movement of my second generation Reprap machine, and that is because i have been steadily improving and upgrading various parts of it, well, of “her” , since she is now

Finally, after weeks ,if not months of work, i finished printing all the necesarry parts for my second gen Reprap . The key aspect of this, is that this was done using my very slow (because of low quality threaded

After some heavy bug fixing , feedback gathering and lots of testing, here is a short rundown on the current state of the project. After some heavy bug fixing , feedback gathering and lots of testing, here is a short

Up until now, the home-brew interface i was using to interact with my repstrap machine was using PyGtk , but i have had a ton of problems with gtk, (segfaults etc), oh and the ui was not windows compatible (

Anyone who has worked on/built a reprap knows that sometimes, it is hard to find its ‘vitamins‘ (not printable elements) for certain parts: one particularly hard /expensive piece are the belts and people have been trying to find ways to replace those

This is when i realize i may be working on too many projects… A few months (ok a lot of months) ago i started rewriting from scratch and greatly expanded the HydroDuino project’s software side, and had a working, if basic version,but

The nichrome wire extruder heater on my Repstrap finally died after working really fine for over a month ( and being dipped completely in molten plastic a few times, thanks to a few z axis adjustment blunders…) . It was

I spent the last two weeks trying to find the source of the “slanted” printing (see pic above) and solve the problem (also, going insane in the process) , here are the steps i went through to get to the